"Shiraz! Shiraz! Come on, my dear, eat now, it's very delicious." Ami's (Mother's) extremely loving voice came.
"No, no, I won't eat it. You know very well that I don't like okra at all, but you still made it. While I told you this morning to make biryani for me today," Shiraz replied, shouting badly. "My dear! Abu (Father) was not at home, and you know the servant has gone to his home, and you were at school too. Tell me, from whom would I have gotten the meat for biryani?"
Ami was standing at the door, explaining to him. "I just said I don't want to eat it, so I don't want to eat it. You eat it yourself." "Naughty boy, son! The food is getting cold. I took it out and put it on the dining table a long time ago. Good children don't make food wait. Our beloved Prophet (peace be upon him) has forbidden it." Ami kept explaining to him. Finally, with great difficulty, he agreed and sat down to eat, making a face.
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Shiraz was the only son of his parents. While he had many good qualities, he also had one bad habit, and that was that he did not respect sustenance. Sometimes he would leave food on his plate, and sometimes he would throw it in the trash. And if his favorite food was not made, then he would just make Ami's life miserable, but he wouldn't eat the food.
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Today, when he was going to school in the car with Abu, he saw a ten-year-old girl wearing dirty clothes searching for something in the garbage. He started watching her carefully. Suddenly, he saw that the girl had picked up a dead pigeon and also the bread that was lying in the garbage heap.
He suddenly cried out, "Abu! Abu! Look what that girl is doing?" His Abu saw it too and was very surprised what the girl would do with the dead pigeon. He got out of the car and went to the girl and asked her with affection, "Dear daughter, what will you do with this dead pigeon?" Tears came to the girl's eyes. She said, "Uncle, my Abu has passed away. My mother earns our living by working in people's homes, but she has been very sick for the past month. All the food and drink in our house is finished, and now we don't have money to buy anything. My younger siblings are getting restless with hunger, so I came here to find something. This pigeon and bread will not satisfy my siblings' hunger, but at least they will have enough energy in them so that they don't die of hunger."
Shiraz was stunned to hear this painful story of the little girl. He was only eleven years old, and he could not even imagine that a person could die from the lack of sustenance that he did not value at all. He looked at his Abu with extreme shame and sadness. His Abu was also very sad. Then he lovingly placed his hand on the girl's head and asked for her home address. She said that she lived at the far end of the settlement, near the train tracks.
Shiraz's Abu told Shiraz that they would not go to school today but would go to the girl's house. Shiraz's Abu took the girl with him and first went to the market. From there, he bought shoes, clothes, and lots of food and drink for her and her family and then reached her house at the end of the settlement.
He handed over all the goods to her Ami. Since her Ami was extremely ill, Shiraz's Abu gave her a large sum of money for treatment so that she could get her treatment done. Shiraz's Abu also told her that when she got well, instead of going to people's houses for work, she could work in his house. This way, she would also have a permanent place to live, and her self-respect would not be hurt. The woman started giving them a lot of prayers.
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Today Shiraz was very happy. Even without going to school, he had learned a great lesson in humanity,